Determining Patrol Officer Job Satisfaction - The Role of Selected Demographic and Job-Specific Attitudes

• NCJ Number: 93356
• Journal: Criminology Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1984) Pages: 61-81
• Author(s): E S Buzawa
• Date Published: 1984
• Length: 21 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The central issue of this study involves determining the importance of various demographic and job specific attitudes in predicting job satisfaction among patrol officers.

Abstract

Findings contradict much of the previous literature that suggested a predictable association between specific factors and officer attitudes. Instead, this study supports a situational approach to predicting job satisfaction. In addition, the impact of affirmative actions was shown to be highly associated with job satisfaction under certain circumstances. (Publisher abstract)